Xfinity TV App on Samsung Smart TV

I just purchased a new Samsung Smart Tv and the app isn't in their app store as far as I can tell.

Just curious if Comcast/xfinity had a falling out with samsung or what is going on. The HBO-Go app doesn't work either because Comcast doesn't Authorize it on a samsung smart tv. Funny though, Verizon Fios and Time Warner both do...

Massively lame for my brand new 40" smart TV. I agree it's interesting that Verizon's cable option is available. Comcast is excluding their own customers from their paid service, not smart. It would be nice to know why this app wasn't designed to be available for all Samsung Smart TVs.

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I have a 40" Samsung smart TV which I now discover from numerous calls to support that the Xfinity on demand app is not available. In addition, the HD Comcast Cable box is NOT compatable with the TV. You can turn it on but you then need to use the Samsung controller to select the starting channel then go back to the comcast controller to select other channels. When you shut the tv off and turn it back on the screen is red and you have to go back ands forth turnign on and off the tv to get the correct colored screen. The final conclusion from Comcast is that its a Samsung problem and not their responsibility or fault. I will be installing an antenna or looking at Uverse for a replacement option.

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I have a compatible Samsung TV and have downloaded the Xfinity app and it does not work. I can't log in at all. I can log in fine on my phone and computer. I have call Comcast about the problem and they do not know why it's not working. I don't think anybody been able to use this app.

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I just got a UN65F8000 and i searched for "xfinity" and "comcast" in the Samsung App store and neither showed results!?!? The F8000 series was their top of the line TV for 2013, why isnt the app available?

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I would be interested in learning if there is a comcast xfinity app as well. We recently purchased the samsung smart tv (it's a un50h5500af). I downloaded the HBOGO app yesterday and it's working fine, but we already have dish as our primary provider. Comcast is my internet provider, but in order to get a better deal they "bundled" it with their tv services. I never hooked up the box and don't intend to. I can watch additional programming from them online and would prefer to do this directly through the tv rather than my computer. Is this possible to do? I don't recall seeing an xfinity app either while searching through the app store.

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JC,

Thanks for your post. I, too, recently spent the good part of 4 days contacting Comcast when my internet and cable were mysteriously out for DAYS, without any weather disturbance or explanation. Never got an explanation.

And now I find myself in the seemingly unfortunate position of having just purchased a Samsung 'Smart' TV. So, let me get this straight, Comcast releases a statement on April 08, 2014 at 11:40 PM that states:

XFINITY TV on Samsung Smart TV is an XFINITY On Demand-only service, available for download from the SMART Hub on Samsung Smart TVs. The XFINITY TV on Samsung Smart TV service provides our XFINITY TV customers the ability to search and watch XFINITY On Demand programming on their Samsung Smart TV without a set-top box.

But it's not true???!?!??!?? Except on a few 2012 models? Why release a statement in 2014, then? I wish it were unbelievable, but it's not; it's Comcast. We deserve better. Unfortunately, our options are so limited that none of the providers have any incentive to actually provide us with meaningful service. Worse yet, we are being misled.

Just an FYI, I have heard that ATT Uverse now has wireless 'set-top' boxes.

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I think what he's saying is that the link indicates that the Xfinity app is available for Samsung Smart TVs now. Are you still selling 2012 models of your televisions in the current market? If not, then the link is making inaccurate statements because most of us are unable to access this Xfinity app on other Samsung model tvs.

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Just got home with my new Samsung Smart TV. Bought it because Best Buy rep "checked and Xfinity is a Smart Hub" app. Poor Best Buy gal (who was super) was duped and so was I. Yo, whatever happened to truth in advertising? I found this thread and want to poke my eyeballs out. Nope, no Xfinity app. My father is bedridden from a back surgery gone wrong. The room he's in doesn't have a cable outlet. He is only 67 years old and is stuck in this room. I promised him some cable thanks to Samsungs advertising. Thanks, Samsung. I hate you. Oh! My parents pay $350 a month to Xfinity for all their channels and boxes and service plan. I'm sure anyone reading this can hear the stream of hatred coming from every inch of my being. Way to let an brilliant, bed-ridden man down with your messed up advertising. I hate you. I would never have gotten him into thinking this would work if you hadn't advertised what you had. I hate you. I'm trying to give him a life here after a surgeon ruined him. I hate you. Comcast, you need to make this right. Get on the whole Samsung-Comcast-As-Promised-Train right now.

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This is sort of a bummer, I have a (only slightly) older ES6500 series Samsung smart TV which is apparently not in the limited list of supported televisions. I just discovered that, being a Comcast Cable subscriber, they offer a show series for streaming that Netflix does not. This could be a critical move by Comcast to get customers back over from "cord cutting", but you're going to have to work a little harder than this Comcast.

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No the app is not there. I have a listed model TV but no app and you CAN NOT run it from the linux browser on the TV. Adobe dropped support for linux a while back and the version of flash on the TV can not run much of anything. If you have not already bought a TV I would recommend buying a "dumb" TV and a device - notebook, tablet, phone - with a HDMI output and you can run a lot faster and a lot more from that device connected to your HDMI port on any cheap dumb TV. You can get a wireless remote or keyboard for most notebooks and devices and control the TV too (basic functions) along with your device.

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Not only does the Xfinity app not work with Samsung, but I downloaded FoxNow from Samsung smart hub to my TV the other day. It works fine, BUT... when I went to verify it, they tell me comcast doesn't support it. ALL they need to do IS GIVE A VERIFICATION CODE for crying out loud. I can watch FOX on my TV, on my tablet, on my laptop, and on my phone, so WHY can't I get verified to use it on my so called Smart TV???? There's a HUGE list of cable companies that DO allow it!

Also, if they don't want to let Samsung TV owner's have the app in their TV, the very LEAST they could do, is add/support the cast button to the app. I'd much rather have it in my Samsung "Smart" TV but since Comcast is too lame to do that, I wouldn't mind casting it from my phone, at least. I have 29 apps in my phone that I can cast to my TV to watch shows and movies, but the company that I PAY FOR MY CABLE SERVICE is the ONLY app that I can't do that with. That's just beyond ridiculous Comcast.